Big Brother 13 Episode 28

After Kalia’s elimination in Big Brother 13 Episode 27, Adam secured himself a spot in the final three by winning HOH.

I thought Jordan’s vote was planned by Rachel so that Rachel could personally vote out Kalia, but the reality is that Jordan didn’t want that jury member’s blood on her hands.

Jordan’s worried that Adam’s plan is to ditch them and take Porsche with him to the end. Not a bad plan, but ick. Can the jury just vote present in that scenario?

Nominations
Rachel is safe.

Jordan and Porsche have been nominated for eviction. Adam says that, if you want to be in the final three, you have to earn it. Apparently, he believes he has earned it. He is alone here.

It’s time for the final veto competition, which is the real power of this week because the winner is safe and will decide who gets evicted. Each jukebox has 20 clues, and they have 10 pairs of names that must match those clues correctly. They have to think about what happened throughout the season, with questions about things like the fourth HOH alongside completely pointless things like who hosted the fourth veto competition. Porsche is the first to buzz in, but she has 1 wrong. Her second attempt is correct, and Porsche wins the power of veto.

That gives Porsche the lone vote to evict, and she can choose from either Rachel or Jordan, the two biggest threats in the house.

Porsche thinks that her chances of winning are better against Jordan because she already won two years ago, a path she’s headed down again this year, as people have been silly enough to ignore that she could potentially win it all again. I’m not sure how being a previous winner is a disqualification to doing that. She also thinks that, if Rachel wins this final HOH competition, which she’d no doubt be in the running for since it starts off as an endurance competition, she’ll take her to the final two.

At the final veto ceremony, Porsche pulls herself off the block, and Rachel goes up in her place. Jordan says she knows she’s going home, as she barely even knows Porsche. This concludes with Porsche’s vote to evict Jordan. Now I’m left with no choice but to root for Rachel. Weird how this season has turned out.

The final HOH competition will be split into three parts. We start off with the Big Brother mixer. They’ll have to stand on a giant mixer as long as they can. I assume they’re going to be dipped in the goop sooner rather than later.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 13 Episode 29, where we will find out who the Big Brother 13 winner is, which airs Wednesday at 9:30/8:30c on CBS.

America’s Got Talent Season 6 Episode 30

The top 10 performed in America’s Got Talent Season 6 Episode 29. Tonight 4 of them will advance to next week’s finale.

Team iLuminate and Smage Bros. are the first two acts. Clearly Team iLuminate is the first group to advance to the finals.

Miami All Stars and Lys Agnes are next. After last night, I don’t think either of them will make it. They don’t.

Poplyfe and Landon Swank are the third duo. My pick here is Landon hands down, although I’ve been confused by Poplyfe’s popularity all along. Poplyfe advances to the finals. I still don’t get it.

Silhouettes and West Springfield Dance Team are next. Along with Team iLuminate, Silhouettes are the favorites to win this season, so they’re obviously advancing to the finals.

Anna Graceman and Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. are the final pair of the night. Tough call. Landau is the last person to advance to the finals.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 6 Episode 31, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

Big Brother 13 Episode 27

Rachel won HOH in Big Brother 13 Episode 26 and proceeded to nominate Porsche and Kalia.

Porsche and Kalia have just one hope. If Adam wins the veto, Jordan gets nominated, and they would have the votes to get rid of her. Not a bad idea.

Otev the shark wants some pies, which are named after houseguests. Jordan stumbles her way to elimination in the first round. Rachel is the next one out. Kalia’s the third one down. Porsche incorrectly identifies Keith as this summer’s biggest loser, forgetting that Shelly is the one who lost all 17 competitions. In doing so, she gives Adam the opportunity to get back first with the correct answer and win the power of veto.

Shelly heads to the jury house unable to realize where she went wrong, and an argument with Jeff ensues. She talks about how she wanted to switch back to Rachel and Jordan and her word to stick with them would be good, so she doesn’t know why they didn’t pick her. Really?

Kalia makes Adam an offer to not nominate him next week. As if it matters. The veto winner decides who goes home in the final four, not the HOH, unless the HOH happens to win both. Odds of Kalia winning both? I’m gonna go with less than 0. She does have a valid argument, though. Adam needs to make a big move if he wants any hope, but ultimately it’s too late anyway.

At the veto ceremony, Adam opts to not use the power of veto.

Votes
Jordan: Porsche
Adam: Kalia

With a tie vote, Rachel gets to cast the deciding vote, no doubt exactly as she wanted. Rachel votes to evict Kalia. Kalia talks about how her goal was to beat the vets. Like her best friend due to lack of other options Daniele?

The fortune teller finally speaks, keeping them up all night. Of course, the HOH competition is based on this. Everybody gets the first question right, one which shows up what to expect from this competition: it’s only false due to a couple of mixed around words and the word clown shoe being singular. Adam and Porsche get the second question right. Adam and Jordan score a point on the next question. Adam and Jordan score again on the fourth question. And again. Everybody gets the next question right. Adam is the new HOH.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 13 Episode 28, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

America’s Got Talent Season 6 Episode 29

Silhouettes, Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., Anna Graceman, Landon Swank, and Smage Bros. advanced in America’s Got Talent Season 6 Episode 28, rounding out the top 10. Those 10 acts will perform again tonight.

Miami All Stars perform a sports themed dance (football players, cheerleaders, marching band, and a mascot). Piers buzzes. He doesn’t want them to be a cheerleading act (with a chicken). Sharon agrees this is not the right performance to get them into the finals. Howie thinks they took the Miami out of the All Stars.

Lys Agnes wants to fuse rock and opera tonight. Dream On is certainly not the song I expected from her. I don’t get it. Sharon thought she was listening to Cher with that low voice. Howie tells her that was too big a risk. But Piers says to ignore them. At least it wasn’t more of the same.

Landon Swank wants to give people the wonder they had when they were little kids. He spits a goldfish snack out of his mouth into a glass, where it becomes a real goldfish. Then he sticks his hand through a tank, and the fishy disappears. He’s happy that this is the first time that’s actually worked like it should have. Howie calls him a conjurer. Sharon loves how he makes magic contemporary.

Anna Graceman sings True Colors. Piers didn’t think her lower notes were good, but her big notes are incredible. Howie doesn’t think that was as good as last time.

With some of the kids in the group facing life threatening diseases, Silhouettes want to get across the message to not let life’s obstacles stop you. Genius again. Sharon thanks them. Howie tells them they’re the first final act. Piers calls it the best performance of the night by a mile.

Smage Bros. Riding Shows don’t have any more family members whose lives they wish to endanger, so they’re going to skateboard on their motorcycles while merely endangering their one friend who’s lost some brain cells. He gets hit in the head and his leg run over, but he doesn’t mind. Piers didn’t think it was as good as the last round, and he thinks they made some obvious mistakes. Sharon disagrees that they weren’t as good as last time, and they disagree about the main mistake he points out.

Poplyfe perform a medley of Jackson songs. I still don’t get it. Piers says they’re a great pop band. Sharon doesn’t think there’s anything out there now, and there’s probably a reason for that. Howie calls America idiots if they don’t vote.

West Springfield Dance Team hopes to capitalize on the popularity of vampires. Sharon views them as too predictable. Piers buzzes because he agrees with her.

Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. sings some Dean Martin. No less predictable than West Springfield, but this time it gets a standing ovation. Piers would pay to see that.

Team iLuminate is the final act of the night, and tonight their choreographer joins them on stage. This is the year of the dance, and they should easily walk right into the finals with Silhouettes. A refreshing change from the typical American Idol Lite scenario.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 6 Episode 30, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on NBC.

Big Brother 13 Episode 26

Shelly’s eviction of Jeff proved to be her undoing with her eviction in Big Brother 13 Episode 25. We left off at the start of a HOH competition that lasted a whole 13 minutes but nonetheless was too long for the results to be revealed.

Kalia wanted to vote with the majority. She failed at that, and now Adam doesn’t want to be on her side, unless she wins HOH that is.

The competition started with Rachel in the lead, where she remains throughout the whole thing. Kalia was out before it even began, but the other two are putting up something resembling a fight. With 2 minutes left, it’s obvious that Rachel will win HOH in a final tally that’s not even close.

Kalia apologizes for voting for Adam, an apology he doesn’t want to hear.

When Rachel gets her HOH key, everybody goes upstairs and pretends to be interested, but first they have to wake up Kalia, who has been nicknamed Koala because they sleep up to 22 hours a day. All the girls talk about how great Brendon looks in those pictures. Then they notice the guy they’re left in the house with, Adam. Rather look at the pictures.

Kalia tells Rachel she’s willing to get rid of Porsche if it means getting past this week. Porsche agrees to final three as well, but Rachel’s not sure if she can trust this person who once upon a time was her friend (answer: she can’t trust her).

Pandora’s box is back. After last week, I wouldn’t touch it. Tori Spelling appears on the screen. She used to be a celebrity in the 90s when she was on 90210, and from that, Adam is obsessed with her. Their offer is a shopping spree with Tori Spelling. Not worth it. Rachel, however, thinks it is worth it. She will not be meeting with Tori. Rather, she gets to meet Jesse (Big Brother Jesse). The joke’s on Rachel, as she gets locked in the room where she can watch his ego grow. Meanwhile, the other houseguests are the ones who actually get to meet the very pregnant Donna Martin. They get a 3 minute shopping spree as well. As for Rachel, she gets a bunch of Jesse merchandise. She asks if she has to keep it.

So Porsche’s box was potentially game ending, while Rachel’s is just an amusing annoyance.

Adam switches sides again. He says he truly wants to be with Rachel and Jordan in the finals, but he’s better off on the other side because it’s not like he can beat either of them, whereas he has a shot against the sleepers.

Nominations
Jordan is safe.
Adam is safe.

Kalia and Porsche have been nominated for eviction. Porsche says it’s because they’re the strongest competitors. Really?

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 13 Episode 27, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Big Brother 13 Episode 25

Rachel’s veto win in Big Brother 13 Episode 24, leaving Porsche with no option but to put Shelly and Adam on the block.

Shelly’s new plan is to be saved by a fortune teller. This does not work. So then she goes to Rachel and pretends she’s played the game. Really? Not buying that, how about if I offer you a cubic zirconia that’s a duplicate of a diamond ring from my mama? With bribery not working, she claims she’s sorry. Nobody in America believes that.

Like Shelly, Adam offers to flip back to the people in power, again.

Daniele and Jeff make their way to the jury house. Daniele wants to see Adam because he’s not doing anything. Then Jeff discovers the error he made, tossing away a clown shoe that would have won him the veto. Daniele takes credit/blame for being responsible for the eviction of all three of the jury members, and Brendon suggests that perhaps if she just stuck to the plan, things would have worked out better for the veteran alliance.

Porsche wants to go up against a newbie in the final two. I’d want to go up against the people who haven’t done anything, too.

In her pre-voting speech, Shelly openly tells Rachel and Jordan they need to keep her so that they can team up.

Votes
Kalia: Adam
Rachel: Shelly
Jordan: Shelly

By a vote of 2-1, Shelly has been evicted from the Big Brother house. At least she finally picked a side after pretending to be in an alliance with Jeff and Jordan all summer, but she left Rachel and Jordan with no choice but to seek revenge against a bad liar.

The duo twist has served its purpose and is over, and now it’s back to individuals for the HOH competition. They must dive their way through donut goo and bring back as many donuts to the other side as they can get. Rachel starts off in the lead. After just one lap, it looks like Rachel will win this, while Kalia and Jordan are already out of it. Because this is a 13 minute competition, we’ll have to wait until Sunday to find out who wins. Really? I get that this is necessary for an endurance competition, but 13 minutes?

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 13 Episode 26, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

America’s Got Talent Season 6 Episode 28

The last of the semifinalists performed in America’s Got Talent Season 6 Episode 27, and tonight 5 more will round out the top 10.

Gymkana, Steven Retchless, and Silhouettes are up first. Obviously, Silhouettes is advancing, though they’re going to have to step it up if they want the title.

Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. and Anna Graceman are next. I assume they’re both advancing, and in spite of Nick’s lame attempt to fake everybody out, they are.

Professor Splash, Fatally Unique, Summerwind Skippers, and Landon Swank are the next group. I’ll have to go with Landon of this lot, and he is the next one to enter the semi-semifinals.

That brings us down to Smage Bros. Riding Shows, Kinetic King, and Snap Boogie. The act eliminated is Kinetic King. Sharon votes for Snap Boogie. Piers votes for Smage Bros. Howie also votes for Smage.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 6 Episode 29, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

Big Brother 13 Episode 24

After Porsche opened Pandora’s box in Big Brother 13 Episode 23, the duo twist returned for one week.

Porsche admits to receiving money for opening the box, but she doesn’t tell anybody that Kalia has money, too.

Nominations
Kalia is safe by default.
Adam and Shelly are safe.

Rachel and Jordan have been nominated for eviction. Because they didn’t talk to Porsche about the nominations, or so we’re told. So Jordan goes upstairs to talk, and they’re not happy. Their plan is to get rid of the floaters instead. Porsche’s interpretation is that this deal stands regardless of who wins veto.

With her shouting out of her system last week, Jordan won’t say anything to Shelly any more.

With only six players left in the game, this week is the first time that everybody gets to participate in the veto.

A bunch of dummies are out in the backyard, the evicted houseguests. They have to hop on their former partners and stay on the longest. Thinking back to the very first competition with the bananas, it would seem this is Rachel’s to win. On the other hand, Shelly and Jordan were the first ones out of that. Adam’s the first to fall after 4 minutes. Jordan drops after 8 minutes. Shelly’s out at 12 minutes. Porsche lasts 18 minutes. Kalia’s not happy because her alliance (including herself) can’t ever do anything. After 32 minutes, Kalia falls, and Rachel wins the power of veto.

This is my favorite rigging of this show ever.

Now that she’s in danger of leaving, Shelly wants to speak with Jordan alone for a few minutes. Jordan says she forgives but does not forget.

As if they’re going to trust her, Shelly offers to be in an alliance with Jordan and Rachel again. Of course, they couldn’t trust Adam either, although he’s somewhat more useful in competitions. She says she won’t beat them anyway, and if a competition comes down to them, she’ll quit. That would be a great offer if she had a chance of winning anything or if she were at all trustworthy.

Rachel removes herself and Jordan from the block, and by default, Adam and Shelly have been nominated.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 13 Episode 25, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.